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Rh Pr. I give; choose whether thy remaining troubles

I shall tell thee clearly, or him that will release me.

Ch. Consent to do her the one favor,

Me the other, nor deem us undeserving of thy words;

To her indeed tell what remains of wandering,

And to me, who will release; for I desire this. Pr. Since ye are earnest, I will not resist

To tell the whole, as much as ye ask for.

To thee first, Io, vexatious wandering I will tell,

Which engrave on the remembering tablets of the mind.

When thou hast passed the flood boundary of continents,

Towards the flaming orient sun-traveled

Passing through the tumult of the sea, until you reach

The Gorgonian plains of Cisthene, where

The Phorcides dwell, old virgins,

Three, swan-shaped, having a common eye,

One-toothed, whom neither the sun looks on

With his beams, nor nightly moon ever.

And near, their winged sisters three,

Dragon-scaled Gorgons, odious to men,

Whom no mortal beholding will have breath;

Such danger do I tell thee.